The Syrian Connection: Iran’s Rocky Road to Justice
Babak Payami In Syria, justice has begun in a cage. Former Assad officials are finally appearing before courts, while the
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The Hungarian Connection
The Politics Iran Still Has Not Built In my earlier essay, Iran’s Paradigm Shift, I argued that the Woman, Life,
Deconstructing Iran: A Misguided Western Endeavor
The failed U.S.-Iran talks in Islamabad were not just another diplomatic disappointment. They exposed a deeper Western failure: the refusal
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The Bill for Appeasement
Why the World Cannot Ask Iranians to Pay Alone Babak Payami – After forty-seven years of the Islamic Republic in
Celebrating on the Corpse of Freedom
Babak Payami Last week, the Islamic Regime in Iran staged its 47th anniversary spectacle while tens of thousands were systematically
Iran, War, and the Limits of Moral Hygiene
Babak Payami – I should begin by putting a simple fact on the record: I am not a violent person.
Complacency, A Western Tragedy
The Laundering of a Murderous Narrative Babak Payami The Islamo-Fascist regime in Iran does not need your agreement. It needs
BLOOD ON THE STREETS
A State of Siege and the Lazy Balance That Helps It Iran under an internet blackout is a state of
The Political Commoditization of Art
Or how I learned to love the art and reject politics I want to reflect on the narrow, uneasy space
Celebrating or Commiserating the Demise of What Wasn’t
America and the Myth of Empire Every few months, some event is declared proof that the “American empire” is finished.
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